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Chapter 1168: Loss of Reason

Qinglong slowly walked out from the train head, staring with both eyes at the few remaining “Heavenly-Levels” in the room.

His gaze filled with killing intent caused everyone to lower their heads, not daring to look directly at him. They felt Qinglong must have overused his “Immortal Art.” Though his body appeared completely uninjured, his spirit was severely damaged.

But what person could possibly push Qinglong to this state?

Qinglong slowly walked to Heavenly-Mouse’s side, reached out to grab the chair beside him, dragged it out with a loud noise, then sat down heavily.

“Where’s Heavenly-Ox?” he asked.

“She…” Heavenly-Snake wanted to say something, but tactfully lowered his head, secretly glancing toward Heavenly-Mouse.

Heavenly-Mouse’s attitude had been completely beaten away by Qinglong’s earlier palm strike. He no longer dared to be arrogant.

At this critical juncture, if he told Qinglong “the bell is destroyed, Heavenly-Ox went to handle it, and the result was a complete mess,” who knew what the consequences would be.

Just as Heavenly-Mouse was about to pretend ignorance, he suddenly discovered a strange problem.

As someone with “Divine Hearing,” Qinglong… hadn’t he heard anything?

Even if killing Xuanwu was a small-scale event where the other party used some method to hide from detection, the giant bell and display screen being destroyed… such a major incident where even Heavenly-Ox activated “Amplification”—why would Qinglong not have heard it?

Heavenly-Mouse cautiously turned around, asking carefully: “Qinglong… where did you just come from?”

Qinglong didn’t answer, only looked at him with bloodshot eyes.

“Do I need to report my itinerary to you?” Qinglong asked.

“No… that’s not it…” Heavenly-Mouse hurriedly shook his head.

Everyone’s heads were lowered. No one spoke.

“Someone came by earlier?” Qinglong asked again with furrowed brows.

After all, he felt someone had released “Illusion Arts” in the “Train Head,” otherwise his memories couldn’t possibly be this chaotic.

“No…” Heavenly-Snake slowly said. “It’s only been the few of us here the whole time…”

“Strange. If no one came, why are you all acting this way?” Qinglong spoke once more, his voice making everyone shudder.

As his words fell, he felt some commotion by his ears. Listening carefully, the entire “Taoyuan” had become chaotic like a pot of boiling porridge.

“What’s going on down there…?” Qinglong turned his head toward Heavenly-Dog.

“This…” Being watched by Qinglong, Heavenly-Dog had no way to continue remaining silent. He could only speak: “Just now while you were outside, I thought you knew… The giant bell and display screen were destroyed, and Xuanwu was also killed…”

Heavenly-Dog said everything about the current situation in one breath. Qinglong also widened his eyes at this moment.

“What did you say… the giant bell and display screen were destroyed?”

“Right… Xuanwu was also killed.”

“Who destroyed them?” Qinglong asked again.

Heavenly-Dog paused, then answered: “The giant bell seems to have been destroyed by an organization called ‘Extreme Path’… But as for Xuanwu…”

“‘Extreme Path’…?” Qinglong narrowed his eyes, pondering for a few seconds. “That apple’s brain didn’t have this matter in it yesterday. How is it possible… For something this major, could ‘Extreme Path’ have acted on a whim?”

“Apple…?”

Qinglong slowly stood up, contemplating this suspicious matter. The giant bell and display screen were originally established by “Participants” anyway. Now that they were destroyed, it wasn’t important. Next time he could find a way to get a few people with the same abilities to rebuild them.

But what exactly was the reason these people did this?

Was it just a momentary riot?

“So Heavenly-Ox went to resolve this matter?” Qinglong asked again.

“Right…” Heavenly-Dog nodded.

“She can’t resolve it,” Qinglong said. “But this attitude is praiseworthy. If all ‘Heavenly-Levels’ were like her, even if they usually contradict me a few times, I wouldn’t find it particularly obstructive.”

Hearing Qinglong’s words, Heavenly-Mouse continued to keep his head lowered without saying a word.

“Heavenly-Dog, keep watch on their movements. I suspect this matter won’t end here,” Qinglong turned his head and said to Heavenly-Snake again. “Heavenly-Snake, see if you have any usable ‘Natives’ on hand. Calculate how long it will take to rebuild the giant bell and display screen. Construct an identical bell in the original location as soon as possible.”

After hearing this, Heavenly-Snake lowered his head and asked with slight puzzlement: “Forgive my bluntness… is it necessary to build such a thing in the original location? We could actually build it directly on the train…”

Upon hearing this, Qinglong directly reached out and grabbed Heavenly-Snake’s collar, practically lifting his entire person from the ground.

“Heavenly-Snake, what are you saying?” Qinglong asked.

“I…”

“How can it work if we only show it to ourselves?” Qinglong’s crimson eyes stared at Heavenly-Snake. “What’s most important to us?”

“Most important…”

“What’s most important is letting them have ‘hope’…” While his veins bulged, Qinglong actually squeezed out a trace of a benevolent smile. “Without the ‘Giant Bell’ means without ‘hope.’ As the master here, how could I bear to watch everyone live in self-abandonment without goals? This great love of mine that concerns itself with all under heaven, you… understand, right?”

“I… I understand…” Heavenly-Snake nodded like a pecking chicken. “I understand everything… I’ll immediately go compile a list of suitable candidates…”

“It must be identical.”

Qinglong laughed angrily as he placed his hand on Heavenly-Snake’s glasses. With just a light application of force, cracks appeared in Heavenly-Snake’s glasses.

“If anything goes wrong with this matter, I’ll knead these glasses into your eyes. Understand?”

“Yes…” Heavenly-Snake closed his eyes tightly but didn’t dare nod, only desperately saying “I understand” with his mouth.

Qinglong suddenly thought of something at this moment and turned back to look at Heavenly-Dog: “Who did you say died just now?”

“Ah… I said… Xuanwu died…”

“Oh.” Qinglong nodded, turned back around expressionlessly, and said to Heavenly-Snake again: “Something as useful as Xuanwu, you go make another one for me. This time I want to take away all his rationality, so he can never disobey me for all eternity.”

Heavenly-Snake trembled for a moment with closed eyes, then said: “But if there’s no rationality… it will definitely be extremely dangerous…”

“If it’s extremely dangerous, then you stay there and be buried with it,” Qinglong said again. “Back then Baihu didn’t kill you, Xuanwu didn’t kill you either—it shows that although your craftsmanship isn’t good, your luck is pretty decent, right?”

“Yes… that’s right…” Heavenly-Snake nodded.

“So use your good luck to continue wandering among the ‘Divine Beasts.’ Now scram.”

Qinglong released his hand. Heavenly-Snake almost staggered, stumbling as he ran out of the room.

Watching his departing back, Qinglong turned his head again to say to the “Heavenly-Levels” before him: “You’d all better open your eyes wide and be on guard for things that might happen. If anything goes wrong with this riot, I want all of you present to be buried together.”

Everyone froze upon hearing this statement. Then no one dared to continue sitting at the round table. They could only stand up one after another. After greeting Qinglong, they scattered to get busy.

Qinglong stood in place with an ashen expression, striving to recover his rationality. But for some reason, it seemed many strange memories were beginning to drift into his mind.

Not only did his rationality fail to recover, it became even more chaotic.

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